BRODEN: County board should revise coaching policy

9:34 AM,
Jun. 12, 2014

Written by

The Rutherford County Board of Education ought to reconsider its decade-plus-long policy that only permits teachers to serve as coaches and bans other employees from offering such services.

The board adopted the policy at the recommendation of former Superintendent Hulon Watson to avoid the cost of having to pay employees such as educational assistants overtime for spending late afternoons and evenings working as assistant coaches. Teachers get paid stipends to be the official coaches, and some of them volunteer to provide coaching services without extra compensation beyond their ...